NCUA must approve any bylaw amendments; federal credit unions may no longer adopt amendments from the "Standard Bylaw Amendments" booklet because the 1999 revisions to the bylaws included sufficient flexibility to make the separate list of standard bylaw amendments superfluous.
Says Van Alstyne, "It's standard First Amendment law that the more one becomes enmeshed in public issues, the more one submits oneself to First Amendment-protected abuse.
"Further, the (Citizens United) Court said that quid pro quo corruption does not include 'influence over or access to elected officials,'" because "'generic favoritism or influence theory... is at odds with standard First Amendment analyses.'" Breyer argues that this language was non-binding dicta -- but there is, sadly, ample precedent for such snares.
"Simply put, if the level of representation petitioner received falls short of Sixth Amendment standards, countless convictions would be called into question," Susann E. Gill, in an objection filed late Wednesday, wrote on behalf of the state's attorney in the Fairfield Judicial District, which prosecuted Mr. Skakel in 2002.
Formulating a First Amendment standard.
Judging the voluntariness of consent: A psychological critique of the Fourth Amendment standard.
It is a mistake, he said, "to apply a strict First Amendment standard virtually as a matter of course when a court reviews ordinary economic regulatory programs".
As a matter of constitutional doctrine, there was considerable wrestling over how to define the First Amendment standard of review for the limits in question, an issue on which the Buckley precedent was imprecise.
Anthony D. Romero Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union New York, Aug. 22, 2007 To the Editor: FISA, passed during the cold war, sought to establish not only a Fourth Amendment standard for national security surveillance in the United States, but also a Fourth Amendment institution — the federal judiciary — that would oversee the use of this authority.
The First Amendment standard was intended to give breathing space for the media to explore controversial ideas and to write about public figures without self-censoring, he said, as long as reporters are operating with a reasonable belief in the truth of what they are writing.
